Essential Books and Recommended Reading

Essential Books

Nutrition

Welcome to my nutrition collection. On this page you will find links to
books I recommend, which you can purchase directly from Fishpond online
bookstore in New Zealand and Australia, or from Amazon in North America.

In my experience, once on these sites it pays to search for other copies of the same book, to help you find the best deal.

Douglas Morrison - How We Heal: Understanding the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

Written by my good friend and Body Electronics icon, Dr Doug Morrison, this is essential reading for Body Electronics. Originally titled, "Body Electronics Fundamentals", it has since been extensively revised and updated and in its
second printing, and with appeal to a much broader cross-section of the
public.

Frankly, I prefer Dr Johanna Budwig's oil books for her heart, but if you want a
ton of researched facts and the science behind fats and oils, here it is.
Erasmus is a real authority. After recently attending his free lecture in
Auckland I now know he's not just an authority but a true passionate pioneer who
has put in the hard yards to get the facts about fats out into the public eye.
When he started out in the 1980's he had looked for the area where he could have
the greatest impact on health - healthy fats is it and underpins an incredible
mass of health issues.

I love this book. It was perhaps the very first natural health book I ever bought
and has served me faithfully ever since. Loaded with detail on practically every
aspect of nutrition, I read it cover-to-cover. At 1000+ pages, you may just want
to use it as a reference book.

I read his first book, "Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet" at a time when I
knew nothing about health and yet I read it today with as much enjoyment and
discovery. Conscious Eating is quite a tome in comparison but delightfully joins
the spiritual and physical aspects of nutrition.

I use this a lot as a catch-all reference. I can't say I agree with everything, especially from a Body
Electronics perspective, but when you have someone with questions about this or
that condition, you don't yet know what kind of approach they'll be receptive to and you need some thought-starters, this is practically
indispensable.

This is one of those great tomes that
almost seems too good to be true. Price travelled the world, studying native
cultures, their lifestyles, history, diet, and...teeth. He discovered how the
teeth are a barometer of health, amassing a vast body of compelling evidence. Of
course there are always at least two ways of interpreting the data, but this is
still an essential treatise on nutrition.

Fallon is a world-renowned writer and public speaker. As a Weston Price Foundation
director, much of her message supports Price's work. Do I agree with everything
she has to say? Perhaps not, but if there was only one right answer out there,
then there would only be one book too.

To be perfectly honest, I haven't read this one, but the topic of raw milk and the
health of the cows that make it is so important I figured it was worth the risk.
I'd love to hear from anyone who has read it. Sally Fallon is an expert in her
field.

Ann Wigmore is a legend! She is truly passionate about wheatgrass - this is the
lady who carries a stash of it in her handbag for all sorts of emergency
situations when she is out and about. You may read books with more referenced facts, but you can't go past Wigmore for sheer enthusiasm, conviction
and anecdotal brilliance.

You may be wondering if I read many books at all...Sprouting is a survival skill and
produces some of the cheapest, best tasting, vital and nutritious foods you can
get. Even the least green-fingered of us can sprout successfully.

I read a lot of Jensen. He's one of the godfathers of modern natural health and
wrote more books and inspired more natural health practitioners than you and I have had hot dinners.
Not that I'm advocating hot dinners...in fact, after reading this book you may never want
to eat cooked food again.

Am I that transparent? Jensen toured all over the world, including New Zealand,
in the '60's and '70's and was practically a household name for his healthy
cooking classes, of all things. Never rely on Jensen as your only source of
information, but always find out what he has to say on a topic.

You think you know about any topic? Don't believe it until you've read the
anthroposophical version. Dr Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, was an
undoubted genius. Hauschka follows in the anthroposophical tradition and gives
you ways of looking at the relationship of nutrition to life you would never
have thought of.

This is another example of thinking you know how it all works until someone adds
another piece to the puzzle, throwing your belief system upside down. Understanding homocysteine and its connection with
methylation and gene expression is a must. Silly old genes.

Oh dear...it's controversial...but not every "approved" or "safe" product is good
for you. I knew nutrasweet (aka aspartame) was a problem, but I had never heard
of splenda or sucralose. "It's naturally derived from sugar, you know, so it
must be safe"...read on. Sucralose makes aspartame look like health food.

Lalitha Thomas - 10 Essential Foods: A Sensible, Good Humored Approach to Vitality, Health and Well Being

No,
I haven't got his one either...yet. But I devoured Lalitha Thomas's book "10
Essential Herbs". She's so good, she should be banned. She has a gifted and down
to earth way of putting things and if her other book is anything to go by you'll
be adding these 10 foods to your diet for sure.

Another Kessinger reprint. Haven't read this one yet, but I'd bet it's a goody based on
the other Shelton books I have. Shelton is a radical naturopath, who deals
with what's properly called Natural Hygiene. Natural Hygiene is a sort of
fundamentalist approach to health that does not brook anything vaguely synthetic, manufactured
or anti-nature. Some naturopaths may call him archaic and extreme but I think this is a
closed-mindedness that's come out of buying into too much science. Shelton is far
more interested in healing than feeling good, if you know what I mean. I like
him a lot.

John Harvey Kellogg - New Dietetics: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease Part 2

Most people associate the name with cornflakes, but before the name was tarnished, Dr
Kellogg was a great Nature Cure man. I read a lot of nutrition books
pre-pharmaceuticals and pre-American Medical Association because these authors
had no fear of expressing their opinions in the words and force they wanted to use. Some
of their ideas may seem antiquated now, but here is a very honest grass roots
approach to health. I'd love to know what happened to part 1 of this book - Kessinger must have it in the pipeline somewhere.

I have one book by Melvin Page, "Degeneration Regeneration." Page is quite a
technical writer, being a biochemist and dentist but some of the things he has
thought of measuring demonstrate just how easily our body's chemistry is swayed
by our diet. Page realised that diet affected teeth because diet affects the
whole body, the teeth therefore being a barometer of your overall health. Want
to know how to balance your blood and save more than just your teeth? Read the book.

I first read this not long after starting in Body Electronics and had the
fortune of seeing Dr Cabot speak in person the same year. It speaks very
simply and plainly and gives practical suggestions to achieve the outcome
of a happy liver. By the way, if you don't have access to a specific
herbal formula for you, her Livatone powdered product has worked well for
many I have suggested it to (ideally, of course, in conjunction with the dietary
changes she recommends).

You can't really understand nutrition until you've studied and tried fasting.
Ehret is unquestionably THE authority on fasting and may shock you with the
revelation that food is not responsible for our health and vitality. This book
so deserves its place on the "must-read" list.

It's perhaps middle of the road stuff for nutrition, but I like Ballentine's
style and he brings out some good points in this book that will make you think
again, without letting science get in the way.

Yay! I finally found it. This little book is an absolute gem. You may want to look at
Udo Erasmus' Fat That Heal - Fats That Kill, if you want all the science, but in
my opinion you can't go past Budwig's contribution. Having discovered a yellow
pigment in the blood of all the cancer patients she studied, she spent years
helping people using a mixture of flax oil and quark. Some of her stories are
truly remarkable.

This is Budwig's companion book, sharing many tasty flax oil recipes for your
health. Many people have an idea that flax oil is unpalatable. Well I pour it on
most of my meals because I like it, not just for its health benefits. There are
heaps of tasty ways of using flax oil.

D'Adamo's essential
contention is that human evolution has left those of us with particular
blood types unable to deal with certain proteins in various foods. There
is an enticing grain of truth in this, a better understanding of which
you'd have to read my Eat
Right Diet page to begin to get. Nonetheless, for those not really
interested in healing crisis but who want to make some positive diet
changes, this book is actually very motivating and has helped a lot of
people.

I was hoping to find "Oxygen Therapies" by McCabe, but this one is probably close
enough. Here is a man who has been persecuted for his beliefs to the n'th degree but is trying to
bring out the truth anyway.

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